Ján Svorada

Ján Svorada (born 28 August 1968 in Trenčín) is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.

He was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, he raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Czech Republic.

When Svorada won Stage 2 of the 1998 Tour de France he became a rarity in professional cycling because at that point he became a Tour de France stage winner who won at least one stage with two different nationalities. His first stage win at the Tour de France (Stage 7 in 1994) was obtained as a Slovak cyclist, and later he won also a stage in 1998 as a Czech rider.

He competed for the Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Major results

1988

1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour

1990

1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Peace Race

1st File:Jersey violet.svg Active rider classification

1st File:MaillotPuntosRojos.PNG Sprints classification

1st File:Jersey pink.svg Combination classification

1st Stages 1, 2 & 9b

1st Stage 2 GP Tell

1992

1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie

2nd Overall GP du Midi-Libre

1st Stage 1

1993

1st File:Jersey blue.svg Intergiro classification Giro d'Italia

7th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

1994

1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall GP du Midi-Libre

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 9, 11 & 17

1st Stage 5a Vuelta a Andalucía

1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 7 Tour de France

1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain

1995

1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia

1996

1st File:Jersey orange.svg Overall Étoile de Bessèges

1st Stages 4 & 5

1st File:MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Road race, National Road Championships

1st Stage 1 Giro di Sardegna

1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

1st Grand Prix de Denain

2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

1st Stage 1

4th Scheldeprijs

Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stages 5a & 8

1997

Vuelta a España

1st Stages 11, 16 & 17

Volta a Catalunya

1st Stages 1a, 2 & 4

Tour of Galicia

1st Stages 1 & 3a

1st Stage 4 Giro di Sardegna

1st Stage 3 Volta a Portugal

3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

5th Paris–Tours

7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges

1st Stages 2, 3 & 5

7th CoreStates Classic

1998

1st File:MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Road race, National Road Championships

1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 4 4 Jours de Dunkerque

1st Stage 2 Tour de France

1st First Union Classic

1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen

3rd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa

Volta a Portugal

1st Stages 1 & 3

1999

1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia

1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Clásica de Almería

2000

1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 1a Giro del Trentino

1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia

2nd Clásica de Almería

2001

1st Stage 3 4 Jours de Dunkerque

1st Stage 2 GP du Midi-Libre

1st Stage 20 Tour de France (Champs-Élysées)

1st Profronde van Pijnacker

3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges

2002

Tour of Belgium

1st Stages 1 & 4

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia

1st Wiener Radfest

1st Linz

6th Scheldeprijs

8th Milan–San Remo

2003

1st Stage 1 International Tour of Rhodes

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia

1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali

3rd Overall Tour of Qatar

8th Milan–San Remo

2004

1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino

1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie

1st Rokycany

7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

2005

1st File:MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Road race, National Road Championships

1st Stage 1 Bayern Rundfahrt

1st Stage 3 Rothaus Regio-Tour

3rd Stausee Rundfahrt

2006

5th Road race, National Road Championships

6th GP Hydraulika Mikolasek

External links

• Official website
• Official Tour de France results for Ján Svorada
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